Valithria Renewed!

Wednesday … 17 signups a couple of hours before raid time, and we can always count on about 5 that don’t bother to sign up, plus one that works and always shows up about the time we’re on Saurfang.

We were missing a few regulars, but we got a couple of fillins, a super awesome fury warrior that had apparently joined the guild the day before, and Fiakest finally got to raid with us again.

I don’t know if everyone was just refreshed after the holiday weekend, or if the gear people have gotten the last couple weeks helped, or maybe just getting Rotface down last week had everyone feeling positive, but we sped through the Lower Spire so fast that we were on a break after Saurfang before Evanlight even got online, and he usually makes it at least before that fight if not in time for Gunship.

Fester is one-shotted (my god, was it just last week that we didn’t have enough dps to down him?) and Rot is two-shotted … six down with an hour or more still to play with. Bypass Putricide, let’s go try Dreamwalker.

Three priests to raid heal, two shamans and a pally to go in the portals, two tanks. FM on the pally (I was the only mage, so it was the only FM we had), amplify magic on the dragon … good to go. Ret pallies on the suppressors, ranged on the archmages, hunters on the blistering zombies (and my slow … all you arcane mages out there, take slow! trust me, it is more useful than you think), aoe the worms WHEN THE TANK CALLS FOR IT not before.

It took us a few tries to get it down, but once the healers had the portal/orb stuff down and the dps got a little coordination going …. 3 healers at 20 stacks each and we have a healed dragon. I failed at the screenshot though and just got an empty floor where she used to be. Oh well.

Well, if we can get people to wait on worm aoe, and get people to interrupt the archmages, and get the healers to get enough stacks … although I think part of the problem has been people losing interest/leaving the raid by the time we get to her. Maybe this week … would be fun to get a first kill on her in both guilds in the same week. 😀